Ball-bearing.



. K. O. LEQN.

BALL BEARING.

APPLICATIONFILED NOV-25, I9l8.

19 35g 1 31 o Patented May 27, 1919.

Jhvemfon the ' balls KARL OSKAR LEON, OFSTOCKHOLM, SWEDEN.

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, Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented any at, some.

Application filed November 25, 1918. I Serial No. 264:,067.

'To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, KARL Osman LEON, a

subject of the King of Sweden, residing at Stockholm, in the Kingdom of- Sweden, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Ball-Bearings, of which the following isa specification.

-The present invention relates to ball bearingsof thetype which are'provided with resilientraces supported on either side of that supports are provided opposite the on the opposite side of the races to that of the balls at such distances from the races that at excessive load on and bending of the races the will bear against said supports, before t e elastic limit of the races is reached.

In the accompanying dra'wi'n two embodiments of ball bearings accor ing to the present invention are shown by way of example- Figure 1 shows an axial section of one half of a ball bearing according to the first embodiment, and Fig. 2 shows a similar section of the second embodiment.

Referring to Fig. 1, the outer race 1 as well as the inner race 2. consist of suitably shaped rings or the like of for instance steel, which rings bear with their edges against the usual rings 3- and 4. The balls 5 are placed between the rings 1 and 2 in ordinary man ner. It will he understood that mounted in this manner the rings 1 and 2 will be resiliout. The distance at the center line of the I tracks or surfaces contacting with the balls. The invention is characterlzed by this hearing between each of the rings land 2 and the corresponding supporting ring 3. or 4: is such that at excessive load the rlngs 1 and 2 when yieldin 'will. bear against the rings 3 and 4 before the elastic limits of the rings land 2 is reached. I

The embodiment illustrated in Fig. 2 is distinguished from the embodiment above described only in resilient rings 6 and 7 bear, against the bean ing rings 8 and9. This construction is particularly applicable when it is desired to make one of the rings, for instance the. ring 6, so thick that itis capable 0t receiving a somewhat higher load than that for which 'the bearlng is designed'without risk ot the elasticlimit being exceeded.

It will. be understood ments above described may be changed and modified in various respects within the principle of the invention as expressed in the claim, 7

I claim:

In a ball bearing, the combination of balls, resilient races for-said balls, supports for said races on either ,side of the. tracks or surfaces of the races contacting with the balls, and supports opposite the balls on the opposite side of the races to that of the balls 'and located at such distances from the races that at excessive load on and bending of the races they will bear against the supports before the elastic limit of the races is reached.

KARL osrzan LEON.

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